Alexandra Alex Vause is an inmate at Litchfield Penitentiary and the on-and-off lover of main character Piper Chapman. She is portrayed by Laura Prepon. Alex's character is based on Nora (in reality named Catherine Cleary Wolters) in the memoir, Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Womenâs Prison.
On 1 January 1905, the IRN created the world's first operational submarine fleet around these seven submarines. The first combat patrol sent out by the newly created IRN submarine fleet occurred on 14 February 1905 and was carried out by Delfin and Som, with each patrol normally lasting about 24 hours.
This arrangement was a forerunner of the modern submarine ballast tank. First use in war. The submarine was first used as an offensive weapon in naval warfare during the American Revolution (1775â83). The Turtle, a one-man craft invented by David Bushnell, a student at Yale, was built of wood in the shape of a walnut standing on end (see photograph).